It Was a Dark and Stormy Tweet: Five Hundred 1st Lines in 140 Characters or Less

Debra Hamel is the author of Reading Herodotus: A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History; Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan’s Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece; and The Mutilation of the Herms: Unpacking an Ancient Mystery. A book on the naval battle that took place at Arginusae in 406 B.C. is forthcoming from The Johns Hopkins University Press. When she’s not writing about wild women, wild boars, and ithyphallic statues, Debra can be found in her subterranean lair tending her fleet of web sites, which include the literary sites TwitrLit, KidderLit, and ScatterLit. She is also the creator of The Twitter Herodotus, where she is posting an abbreviated version of Herodotus’ History for the modern age. Debra lives with her husband and two preternaturally attractive daughters in North Haven, Connecticut. You can find her online at dhamel.com and on Twitter at @debra_hamel.